Aunt Alana at McDonald's!

When Alana comes home from college she likes to take the kids to fun places this time she took them to McDonald's with their cousin Addi!!

Basement-Before and After.

So when we moved in we had all hardwood paneling in the basement, I decided to paint it and I love it, here are some pics-even though it isn't super clean yet-I wanted to put pics up because i love it!!!

I can't find the before pics but I am sure if you go way back to a post last aprilish it would be there.

Saturday and the Hot Air Balloons!

Saturday I should have cleaned-instead I spent all morning and afternoon with mom-it was great. So saturdaynight I should clean-and I went to the balloon rally with grandma and grandpa and great grandpa and erika with her kids. Sunday I went to church which leaves me Sunday late afternoon and night to clean. I REARRANGED the basement-hahaha, finally at 8:15 at night I decided to make salsa and can it. Going great and then I hear a yell from the basement....MOM I THREW UP!! Not a super big deal because he is great at throwing up in the toilet-EXCEPT when grandma is due to fly in in less then 24 hours.hahahaha funny!

I did make 12 jars of salsa-yeah.

My Family Home Evening Craft!

I really wanted a Family Home Evening board-but didn't really want to pay $40 for it so I tried to find ways to make it. I have to explain it because i am so ridiculously proud of it.

I spent 2 hours shopping with mom-who gave me the idea to use a picture frame(I found the frame at home with an old picture in it.)

I then spent 40 minutes in Michael's with Lucie and spent $5 on scrapebooking paper for it.

I used knobs from a rummage sale I had bought for the kids dressers and had extra of so I painted the front wood part a cream color, cost .25

I bought the tags with names on them for $5.

I spent 4 1/2 hours at my Ruthie's house saturday morning making my masterpiece with her, she is very good at the cricut and was such a help I credit her with it looking sooo cute.

Glue and decopage(sp) $4
I think this is the cutest thing I have ever made and it cost less then $12!! I am way to proud of it. Here is the final result!!

Our First official Flood!

We have been in our house a little over a year and we had a lot of pretty strong storms last night. We woke up and went outside to let the dog go potty and our side street is horribly flooded. The strong winds knocked over my gladiolas-most of which are broke and I will need to pull them out. The kids were amused by the street and thought it was hilarious. We have been told that behind our house has flooded in the past so we went to look and sure enough it flooded, but then I noticed my GARDEN!!!




Almost all of my corn was blown over and broke. My cherry/grape tomatoes that were as tall as I am are blown over and I can't tell yet if they will make it. Some of my normal tomatoes are tipped and their wire cage was pulled out of the ground!! Oh I am so sad!! I love my garden, I am a little sad because this was my first year gardening and I had great plans for my garden!! We were however fortunate with no tornados that we could have gotten!!

Bedrooms

So my neighbor gave me a dresser that was painted red/white/blue/yellow and wasn't very cute. That gave me a great idea to repaint the dresser, Grant's room and Lucie's room. I painted the dresser a light brown and two of Grants four walls light brown. Eventually I want to do a blueish gray on the other two walls but he loves green so we will leave it for now. Lucie's room I painted two of her walls green and left the other two pink, I repainted just the cute flowers and got rid of the ugly ones. I love both their rooms.

4th of July!

For the first time in years we decided to go to Milwaukee for their lakefront fireworks. Josh didn't want to go so it was just me the kids and my whole family. There were so many people there but we got there around 2 in the afternoon and the kids rode scooters, sidewalk chalk, squirt guns, we walked all over, played uno, etc. They also had a firetruck the kids could explore. Lucie loved it but I think she enjoyed being lifted up by the cute fireman more then the truck! it was tons of fun. those were on the 3rd, on the fourth we went to my sisters house and then saw our local fireworks. That was nicer just because they shoot them off 1 block away from our house so we left our house 15 minutes before they started, sat in the front and had a great seat with almost no wait time!! I think next year we will just do the local ones but it was fun spending time with everyone on the 3rd!!